01/02/2017
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"We're here today to review the president's fiscal year 2018 budget request for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation."
"I like the idea of user fees, but before we have a user fee appropriated, we need, (A), to have a plan and (B), we need to spend what we are already collecting in taxes for the purpose for which it is..."
"Since 2014, working with the Corps, once we created the priority list of projects, Congress has appropriated all of the tax money that we collected."
"if there are 500,000 unfilled jobs for construction workers today, I would hope that would be evidence that there is room for apprenticeship programs in the construction industry."